Gary Ezzo
Does anyone know anything about this guy Gary Ezzo. He wrote books: ChildWise and BabyWise. My doctor told me to read ChildWise and it would help me with Kira. When I got on to amazon to get the book a lot of reviews were very bad. A lot of them kept saying to do a search on him and read about all the horrible things that had happened to children whose parents followed his advice. I found a bunch of stuff about him, but nothing about any children. Just wanted to see if anyone else knows anything before I waste my money!
posted by Liddia @ 9:37 AM
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Your doctor sounds like a quack.
http://www.babycenter.com/refcap/8369.html
and check this too
http://www.christian-mommies.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1377
Dr. Lamb is very nice and has kids of her own. Are you sure that is the title of the book?
Ezzo recommends that infants be placed on a blanket and if they crawl off they be punished for touching "your stuff". He also thinks that infants should only be fed 6 to 7 times a day. All over the country babies were being diagnosed with failure to thrive because their parents were starving them per his instructions. Even the church he came from won't touch him with a 10 foot pole.
And any doctor that would send parents looking for parenting advice from a Christian-nazi-child-abuse-proponent doesn't sound like a good doctor to me.
I would have serious concerns about following the advice given in any of Gary Ezzo's childrearing books. Mr. Ezzo has been criticized by numerous groups including the American Academy of Pediatrics for providing false and medically unsound information in his books. He promotes a method that he says is raising a child "God's way", but has also been criticized by several major Christian and Catholic organizations. He and his wife were excommunicated from their church and had at least two previous churches begin similar proceedings. He was dropped by his publisher and went on to publish his books privately.He has misrepresented his education on several occasions, including lying about degrees obtained. He has no professional background in medicine, child development, or breastfeeding education but presumes to be an authority in these areas. I do not know Kira's doctor but would be concerned that she recommended his books when they are considered to be unsafe practice by much of the medical community. The rationale for his methods come not from medical or psychological study but from the bible, however many biblical scholars and teachers have questioned his use of scripture and stated that he commonly uses these passages out of context and misapplies them to his methods. So basically he is promoting his and his wife's personal views on child rearing and trying to back it up with scripture to make it sound like "God's way".
Now shock collars, that's entirely different. Between a shock collar and a cattle prod you could raise a fairly well behaved child.
What the hell do you need a book for?
If you squirt ice cold water in their face when they climb on the furniture they will learn to stay off of things. And tabasco sauce will break them of a pacifier or thumb sucking habit. Thought you could use some advice Larry.
The shock collar sounds like a good idea. Don't you have one that used to be Hunter's?
I'm thinking about just getting a kind of hamster ball thing. I don't know what Dr. Ezzo's book says about putting kids in hamster balls but it sounds like the way Jesus would have raised a kid...if Jesus had a kid that is, and so it's probably okay with Dr. Ezzo. I mean there's gotta be something in the bible about hamster balls, at least in a kind of metaphory way. I've mentioned the idea to Emily and she's luke warm on it.
They make balls big enough for a guinea pig or ferret so I don't think it would take much more to make one for a small crawling child. Good exercise and they can't get into the dog food.
Well, if he's not a real "Dr." maybe he received some sort of honorary doctorate from the Lord God Himself. I'd bet that's the way he'd describe it. And, if that happens to be the case he's probably the best person to talk to about hamster balls.
I got ahold of one of those copies of the New Testament with all of Jesus' words highlighted in red and I'm scanning it to see if Jesus ever mentioned hamster balls. The closest I've found so far is something about lamb testicles.
There's lots of talk about the meek inheriting the earth and the peacemakers being blessed (funny, all this time I thought it was cheesemakers), praying in your closet (what's that about?), and giving all your stuff to poor people, but nothing yet about hamster balls. I'm only about a third of the way though so far though. There's gotta be something about hamster balls in Revelations!
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